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Definition of Inspissate

1. Verb. Make viscous or dense. "Thicken the sauce by adding flour"

2. Verb. Make thick or thicker. "Inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"

3. Verb. Become thick or thicker. "The egg yolk will inspissate"

Definition of Inspissate

1. v. t. To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.

2. a. Thick or thickened; inspissated.

Definition of Inspissate

1. Verb. (transitive) To thicken, especially by boiling, evaporation, or condensation; condense. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To become viscous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inspissate

1. [v -SATED, -SATING, -SATES]

Medical Definition of Inspissate

1. To perform or undergo inspissation. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inspissate

inspirers inspires inspirest inspireth inspiring inspiringly inspirit inspirited inspiriting inspiritingly

inspirits inspirometer inspirtory inst inst. insta- insta-call insta-called insta-calling insta-calls

Literary usage of Inspissate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"inspissate, to make thick, as fluids. (L.) 'The sugar doth inspissate the spirits of the wine;' Bacon, Nat. Hist. § 726. ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To INSPIRIT, (in-spir'-it) ua To animate ; to actuate ; to fill with life and vigour ; to enliven ; to invigorate. To inspissate, (in-spis'-sate) ». a. ..."

3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"... to be accustomed, be wont. Inspect; see Species. Inspire ; see Spirit. inspissate, to make thick. (L.) From pp. of L. inspissate, to thicken. ..."

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